IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
EPBC Threat Rating: Very high
IUCN Claim: “Recent evidence has shown predation by feral cats’”
Cats hunt central rock rats (McDonald et al. 2014).
No studies
There are no studies linking cats to central rock rat populations.
McDonald, Peter J., et al. “A new population of the critically endangered central rock-rat (Zyzomys pedunculatus) discovered in the Northern Territory.” Australian Mammalogy 37.1 (2014): 97-100.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission